Myer Galpern, Baron Galpern

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Myer Galpern (1959)

Myer Galpern, Baron Galpern DL (* 1. January 1903 in Glasgow ; † 23. September 1993 ) was a British politician of the Labor Party , the first Jewish mayor of Glasgow, twenty years a Member of the House of Commons and some years deputy speaker of And in 1979 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Lord Provost of Glasgow and Member of the House of Commons

Galpern, son of a Jewish interior decorator , graduated from the University of Glasgow after attending Hutcheson's Boys' Grammar School and later opened his own interior decorating business in Glasgow.

He began his political career in local politics when he was elected to the City Council of Glasgow ( Glasgow Corporation ) as a representative of the Labor Party in 1932 and was a member of this until 1960. In 1958 he was elected as the successor to Andrew Hood as the first Jewish Lord Mayor ( Lord Provost of Glasgow ) and held this position, in which he was also chairman of the city council, for two years until he was replaced by Jean Roberts in 1960.

In the general election of October 8, 1959 , he was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Commons as the successor to his party friend John McGovern in the constituency of Glasgow Shettleston . In this election he was able to prevail with an absolute majority of 22,916 votes (60.9 percent) clearly against his challenger from the Conservative Party , DE Donaldson, who only got 14,743 votes (39.2 percent). In the subsequent general election he was re-elected with absolute majorities and belonged to the House of Commons until he renounced a new candidacy in the general election on May 3, 1979 .

On February 12, 1960, Galpern was promoted to Knight Bachelor and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". On September 10, 1962, he was also appointed to one of the Deputy Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow.

Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and Member of the House of Lords

1974 Galpern was first second deputy chairman of the (non-existent) committee for ways and means ( Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means ) and was last from February 3rd 1976 to May 15th 1979 first deputy chairman of this "committee". He thus acted as one of the Deputy Speakers of the House of Commons .

By a letters patent dated July 10, 1979, Galpern was raised to the nobility under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Galpern , of Shettleston in the District of the City of Glasgow , and belonged to the House of until his death Lords as a member.

Its official launch ( House of Lords ) took place on 14 June 1978 supported by Samuel Segal, Baron Segal , and Reginald Wells-Pestell, Baron Wells-Pestell . Baron Galpern was the chairman of numerous Jewish charities in Glasgow.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 41953, HMSO, London, February 12, 1960, p. 1081 ( PDF , accessed February 8, 2014, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 42779, HMSO, London, September 11, 1962, p. 7131 ( PDF , accessed February 8, 2014, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 46421, HMSO, London, December 3, 1974, p. 12170 ( PDF , accessed February 8, 2014, English).
  4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 47868, HMSO, London, June 14, 1979, p. 7599 ( PDF , accessed February 8, 2014, English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47901, HMSO, London, July 12, 1979, p. 8777 ( PDF , accessed February 8, 2014, English).
  6. ↑ Entry in Hansard (July 16, 1979)
personal data
SURNAME Galpern, Myer, Baron Galpern
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galpern, Myer, Baron Galpern (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1993